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TAGGED: Annette Kellerman
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Annette Kellerman: lifelong performer

Annette Kellerman's love of colour is obvious from her pink outfit in this beautifully executed promotional photograph. The vertical lines in the backdrop add to the drama of Kellerman's pose.

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Kellerman's underwater tricks

This short excerpt from Venus of the South Seas (James Sullivan, USA, 1924) shows Annette Kellerman performing underwater as both a mermaid and a princess.

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'The Greatest picture of the Century'

A bi-fold pamphlet advertising Australian screenings of Neptune's Daughter (1914).

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'Hurled from a 60-foot cliff'

Scenes from Neptune's Daughter (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1914) give an idea of the more spectacular plot points.

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A Daughter of the Gods: 'Million Dollar Spectacle'

An advertisement for an Australian screening of A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). 

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Realising a childhood dream

Kellerman’s childhood ballet training helped to hone her precision diving, and ballet was an important of her vaudeville act.

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The Diving Venus

A signed publicity still of Annette Kellerman.

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Queen of the Aquatic World: Annette Kellerman

A publicity still of Annette Kellerman from the lost film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). Kellerman is credited with being the first woman to appear nude in a film.

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Neptune's Daughter: Diving

Films starring Annette Kellerman almost always found a way to showcase her skills as a diver, swimmer and underwater ballet artist.

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The Diving Venus: Annette Kellerman

Variety called Annette Kellerman 'The Diving Venus' in 1909. Kellerman had moved to America in 1907 to perform her vaudeville act.